Dear Sir,
It is after many clearing of my throats and seeing others falling sick due to the haze before I decided to write to you.
It is an annual unfortunate incident and yet misunderstood or even under-understood by many friends and foes outside Indonesia.
It is unfortunate for the following reasons:-
- many thousands of Indonesians and other residents in the neighbouring states will have some sort of diminished long term health situations;
- a few may been aggravated to death by the haze;
- loss of goodwill to Indonesia and SEA to the rest of world;
- consequently translate to economic loss in tourism, etc etc;
- Earth's eventual demise is further hastened by this systematic rape of nature;
- blah.. blah ... blah ...
Yet I understand the necessities of the action of those who need to do it.
The World did not cry foul when the West exploited their natural resources for economic prosperity. We were at the infancy state of awareness of the potential damage to environment. Some may still be ignorant today but some of us are now awake.
Is there light at the end of tunnel? As suggested by some think tanks, perhaps the First World countries can adopt the green forests in 3rd World countries through annual grants to encourage preservation.
Indonesia could then be the largest exporter of fresh, clean air to the World.
Hurry! Before we all choke to death.
Yours humbly,
Edgar Wong (cough! cough!)
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